“Initially launched as an effort to package a full menu of online content and services, many players didn’t respond to the format,” Reseburg said. “We’ve listened to the feedback and decided to do away with it moving forward.”

I imagine they'll find some new horrible way to make up for dropping the pass though.

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Of all the things they could consider dropping, this ended up being the one they picked? I hardly even hear any complaining about online passes. The thing that would make people cheer happily would be to stop their fricking requirement that PC players use Origin. Now THAT would be a sight to behold.

There's also no charge for Dragon Age 2's Black Emporium DLC, included with the game's Signature Edition, or the Xbox 360 version of American McGee's Alice, included with copies of Alice: Madness Returns (you'll still need that game's disc to play it).

Some of this in-box DLC gave access to a significant amount of extra content (the Cerberus Network Pass for Mass Effect 2 included the extra squad member Zaeed, plus new vehicle-based missions and other goodies).

But not all Online Pass content has been made free. You can still pay 800 Microsoft Points for Online Passes to more recent EA releases, such as Tiger Woods 14 and Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel, for example.

EA really want to lose that 'shittest company in US' title don't they?,lets hope they can keep going with the good stuff

UPDATE: EA has told Eurogamer it is in the process of eliminating Online Pass from all its existing titles.

"As we discontinue Online Pass for our new EA titles, we are also in the process of eliminating it from all our existing EA titles as well," a spokesperson said. "We heard the feedback from players and decided to do away with Online Pass altogether.

"Players will see it first with some EA Sports titles, where a prompt to enter an Online Pass code will no longer appear in-game; with other titles we are simply making Online Passes available free of charge online.

"These are rolling updates that are taking effect over the next several weeks. We hope players continue to enjoy our games and online services for a long time to come."

Quote from: Turtle on May 30, 2013, 06:27:51 PM

Well, considering that XBO has its own single-copy Steam-like system, I think we know why they dropped it.

While that is true,this is still for the 360,so they did not really need to do all of the above

Well, considering that XBO has its own single-copy Steam-like system, I think we know why they dropped it.

if that's the case then since it's for all platforms you have to wonder why they did it for the others. XB1 and PC are obvious, Wii/Wii U isn't getting much love from them to begin with, so what about the remaining consoles?

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